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Chicago examiner tuesday vol xv no 124 a m Chicago may 15 1917 tuesday b*-istered pt?tr , tr i tw7tk r l t?xrt w Chicago elsetchtire m c s patent office mikjiu x>v j kjejjx lq and suburbs three cents i all wheat gambling in u.s to be barred representatives of Chicago min neapolis duluth kansas city st louis and toledo pits to end all trading in futures complete government control is threatened big traders are summoned before grand jury childs leaves for washington the entire nation has jisen against speculation in wheat and other foodstuffs the pub ic lias determined that forcing of j prices to the skies must stop these are the more prominent de elopments of the day at Chicago representatives of six boards of trade called to meet in Chicago at 3 o'clock this afternoon they will plan te stop speculation in wheat futures throughout the country and to curb wild fluctuations in all grains Chicago board of trade stops spec ulation in wheat futures for two days ending to-night minneapolis duluth kansas city it louis and toledo boards take sim ilar action large Chicago grain dealers sum moned before the federal grand jury robert w childs special attorney of the department of justice leaves or washington to give president wilson data with which to force passage of drastic legislation at washington the senate defeats an amendment o the espionage bill immediately suspending operations of all boards of trade stock exchanges or associa tions engaged in or permitting specu ation in food products for the period f the war announcement is made herbert c hoover will be installed as food dic tator to-day administration senators plan to tnd wrangling on food bills and as sure their passage congressmen brand speculators as thieves traitors and pirates protest meetings in all parts of u s protest meetings were reported from all parts of the country the departure of attorney childs for washington and the calling of the grain dealers before the federal rand jury by united states dis trict attorney charles f clyne were construed by board of trade men last night as certain indications the government plans immediate action igainst speculators among the witnesses called were !â€¢'. j thatcher president and nelson b updike vice president of the up dike commission company 140 west van buren street henry s robbins ittorney for the Chicago board of trade and h b jackson of jackson tros they and others whose names . ore withheld were in conference with the federal attorney yesterday afternoon wilder fluctuations feared by board mr clyne refused to say when the grand jury would hear them that body worked yesterday on the chi cago butter and egg board investl t^tton mr childs place was taken y john e condren the conference of six board of rade committees is expected to re ult in one of the most important doom of free russia sounded disaster at mil hash - admits hope of saving nation a drean dispelled by crisis noth : ig but ruin in sight declares minister of justice in appeal save russia from herself is final instruction of president wilson to root and u s mis sion he heads to pÂ°trograd petrograd may 13 delayed â€” in an impassioned appeal to delegates from the front at a meeting in petrograd to-day a f kernesky minister of justice made the most alarming diagnosis of rus sia's internal crisis which has come from any official person since the revolution the minister of justice who here tofore had made only the most optimistic and reassuring declara tions confessed that his confidence had left him and that he feared disaster sorry he did not die with faith in liberty i come to you said m kernesky because my strength is at an end i no longer feel my former courage nor have my former conviction that we are conscientious citizens not slaves in revolt i am sorry i did not die two months ago when the dream of a new life was growing in the hearts of the russian people when 1 was sure the country coulu govern itself without the whip as affairs are going on now it will be impossible to save the coun try perhaps the time is near when we will have to tell you that we can no longer give you the amount of bread you expect or other supplies oi which you have a right to count th process of the change from slaves to freedom is not going on properly we have tasted freedom and ar slightly intoxicated but what w need is sobriety and discipline reform or russia must quit conflict you could suffer and be silent for ten years and obey the orders of a hated government you could eveu fire upon your own people when commanded to do so can you now suffer no longer m kernesky's declaration though a trifle more outspoken in its pessim ism than the utterances of other of ficials is not unrepresentative of pud lic opinion in petrograd at the pres ent time unless there is a quick in fusion of a new spirit in the army and a new understanding of freedom among the masses and more energy working for the defense of the coun try it is generally felt that russia , ! will not long be able to go on with ' the war admits russ fraternize with german troops petrograd may 14 â€” general guchkoff minister of war has re signed he is the first member of the pro visional government to carry out the recent threat that if interference by the socialists continued the ministers would relinquish their posts the resignation follows that of general korniloff commander of th l'mrograd garrison m gucnkoff yesterday read o j congress of delegates from the front j this letter which he had sent to pr j mier lvoff j in view of the condition in which i t power of the government has i placed specially th author m senate votes for free speech 48 to 34 by james j montague spy ii passe urn muzzle drastic measure to punish es pionage adopted examination of mails and food embargoes provided house to follow washington may 14 the campaign for free speech initiated by the hearst news i papers and led in the senate by j johnson of california curtis of kan sas underwood of alabama and i borah of idaho resulted to-day in i striking the entire press censorship j clause from the senate espionage bill by a vote of 48 to 34 the bill was finally passed by the senate minus both the censorship and the prohibition sections by a vote of 77 to 6 effortjs_had been made throughout the night to upset the vote of 39 to 39 by which the censorship clause had been stricken from the bill cabinet officers claiming the highest authority had worked tooth and nail to restore a gag provision asserting that the war could not be success fully conducted in the full light of publicity sot only did these efforts fail but thirteen more senators rallied to the side of tree speech and av annst rled press as the bill now stands there must be an adjustment between the house and senate before it can finally be enacted the house measure con tains a provision which although it deprives the administration of the muzzling power it asked still makes possible a censorship to be exercised jointly by the president and the courts house likely to follow senate action because of the overwhelming voto against censorship in the senate to day it is extremely likely the house will yield and the espionage bill when it goes to the president will be purged of any semblance of a gag upon free speech the administration's shafts were leveled against free speech and a free press as soon as the espionage bill minus the press censorship section was reported to the senate this aft ernoon overman tries to reinstall gag senator lee a overman of north carolina who had been entrusted with the measure moved to amend the bill so as to include the press censorship section which had been stricken out saturday by a narrow majority mr overman's remarks were brief end perfunctory a count of noses taken in the senate cloakroom some minutes before showed desertions from the ranks of the administra tion democrats which endangered the bill lodge opposes censorship clause administration - bound democrats seconded overman's olea for a gagged press by calls for a vote but action was delayed by senator lodge of massachusetts who arose to announce that he had changed his attitude in regard to censorship and would now 433 perish in diver attack on liner report buenos aires may 14 1n " a running battle with a sub marine the french mail boat tetragon was sunk off cape torrosa between oran and mar seilles and only seventeen of the 450 passengers aboard were saved according to reports re ceived here to-day jos h choate dies suddenly hurry u s troops to france ex-ambassador's last plea to nation new york may 14 joseph h choate well known lawyer and dip lomat died late to-night mr choate died of heart disease at his home 8 east sixty-third street he awakened his wife shortly after 11 o'clock complaining of severe pains around the heart he had re tired apparently in the best of health a hurry call was sent for the family physician but about midnight he died excitement too much it is believed the strain the aged and venerable citizen underwent in welcoming the french and british commission last week brought on the attack in his address at the wal dorf astoria friday night during the great international banquet â€” the last of his long and notable career â€” his message to the government was for god's sake hurry and get troops to france mr choate was born in salem mass june 24 1832 he was admitted to the new york bar in 1856 after he had practiced law in massachu setts for a year previously he was identified with many cases the most prominent in the early days of his legal career being that of one of the committee which broke up the famous tweed ring he was ambassador to great brit tain from 1899 to 1905 ambassador and first delegate of the united states to the international peace conference at the hague in 1907 noted as public speaker mr choate was noted as a public and after-dinner speaker he was the author of several books and prominently connected with several societies i succeeded in spite of advan tages he said once he was a great trial lawyer standing with hand in pocket and addressing a jury as he would a friend on the street and quickly winning confidence many have felt the sting of his wit in court but he was a stickler for eti quette held to general practice though he frequently had corpora tions as clients and collected many fees of 100,000 he stood always for a general practice with clients of low and high estate his first celebrated case was his defense of general fitz john porter discharged from the army in disgrace for supposed disobedience at bull run mr choate fought the court martial verdict for years in the courts and finally won signal attack on income tax his most signal achievement how ever was his successful attack upon the constitutionality of the income tax before the supreme court he not only won his cause but upset precedent and induced an adverse justice to reverse himself reno court frees philander knox jr reno new wy 14 â€” philander c knox jr son of the former secre tary of state was granted a divorce to-day on the grounds of desertion the couple eloped to burlington vt march 6 1910 mrs knox did not contest the suit wilson calls 183,000 more for u.s army national guard to be summoned into service at once to com plete army of 750,000 war department expects to have 1,200,000 troops ready for service within a year washington may 14 president wilson following a conference with secretary of war baker issued an executive order authorizing the rais ing of 183,000 men in four incre ments to bring the regular army to full war strength war department officials let it be known late this afternoon that plans were under way to bring the national guard into the federal service im mediately and that camps were now being selected as training bases for the militia forces which will be in creased to war footing train 750.000 at once here is what the war department intends to do put under training forthwith 750,000 men of the regular army and national guard as rapidly as the two organizations can be brought to full strength have the training of these troops well under way by august 1 when the first increments of the con scriptive army will begin to pour in also there will be ready by this time the 40,000 officers whose train ing begins to-morrow they will take over the leadership of the se lective army 1,200,000 within year straight conscription will be re sorted to in the case of the national guard this was indicated in hish quarters che war department to - day each congressional district in the country will be forced to supply its quota of 800 to bring the guard to its war strength of approximately 330,000 the greater part of the regular army now largely concentrated along the mexican border will be trans ferred leaving the patrol of the rio grande to cavalry divisions of both regulars and guardsmen the militia regiments will be mob ilized at their state camps and then will be moved to federal camps ac cording to the presetn plans under these plans and others being worked out by the army war college the first army of approximately 1,200 000 men will be ready for service in from nine months to a year camps are assigned with 40,000 men from the homes of the nation under canvas to-night training as leaders of the new na tional army america began to t:i!:c on the appearance of a vast w camp at sixteen camps covering the na tion from coast to coast to-morrow will begin a three and one-half months siege of intensive training for the men picked to lead the na tion's legions into battle kill more neutrals german u-boat plea copenhagen may 14 u-boat warfare is not ruthless enough to please professor oswald flamm privy councilor of charlottenburg writing in die woche he urges that fewer neutral sailors be saved so as to terrorize neutral shipping and make the british risk their own bhips president cheered by crowd at circus washington may 14 president wilson went to the circus to-night he was accompanied by miss helen woodrow bones mrs wilson's sis ter recently died the president w 1 recognized and cheered k whisky rider stricken out in the senate by charles michelson cummins amendment lumping distilleries with beer and wine industries is killed 47 to 37 new bill forbidding use of cereal grains in making spirit uous liquors only is planned washington may 14 â€” the sen ate dealt the first hard blow to whisky to-day by knocking out the cummins amendment to the espionage bill this amendment classified the beer and wine industries with distilleries and forbade the use of any cereal in the production of intoxicating liquor during the war 3 it was pointed out in the debate this meant that there being a three year supply of whisky while beer is only brewed for practically immedi ate consumption the country would be placed on a whisky basis and the american workman deprived of mild beverages would be turned to bonded poison new bill to ban whisky now a new bill will be intro duced forbidding the use of grain needed for breadstuffs in the manu facture of spiritous liquors the vote against the cummins amendment was 47 to 37 it clears the deck3 for legislation putting whisky in the same class as mor phine and opium and leaving beer and light wines in the category of tobacco which is practically the course taken by france and ger many cummins denies prohibition senator cummins fought hard for his amendment he denied it was a prohibition measure senator king of utah who niixue the motion on which the amendment was stricken out and senator reed of missouri pointed the amendment v.-ould destroy a billion dollars worth of property to save 50,000,000 bush els of barley that would be fed to cattle had the cnmmina amendment dealt with whisky alone there is no ques tion but that it would have been adopted by an overwhelming vote ripe for whisky ban washington is ripe for the new legislation the only question in the mind of the senators and representa tives who will work for the passage of a bill ending the general sale of whisky is its particular form it may come as an amendment to the pure food bill o it may be introduced as a war measure giving the president authority to close the distilleries to prevent diversion of the enormous quantity of food grains in a time of the greatest need in one form or another this matter will be presented to congress within a few days it is obvious the sen ators who voted for the cummins amendment sincerely accepting it as a prohibition measure would vote for the anti-whisky bill and enough votes from the opponents of the amendment who did not believe it u s weathek forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” fair tuesday and wednesday warmer tuesday gentle to moderate west erly winds becomlne variable weather for tvrer.t.v-foiir tio;;rs ending j p n : hljfhekt 6 lowest 44 averaflpe .">": normal teniperature for the day r deficiency of temperature since january i ids precipitation for twenty-four hours at 7 p m none relative humidity 7"s m 41 Â£ p m 28 7 p m 29 barometric pressure reduced to m level 7 a m 30.25 7 p m 30.17 sunrise to-day 4 59 burnet 7:08 onanlct cotwumnt report oa^pjfa 16 m m house to kill speech muzzle avers speaker washington may 14 " speaker champ clark made the following statement to-night the action of the senate in kill ing censorship this afternoon will eliminate any press gag from the espionage bill as it will leave congress for the sig nature of the president if there is any attempt to in clude censorship in the espion age bill in conference between the house and the senate it will be repudiated by the house exactly as the vote against the roosevelt volunteer division was repudiated when the members had heard from their constituents i believe that censorship is dead so far as the espionage bill is con cerned british take rest of roeux deepen hole in hindenburg line at bullecourt advance near gavrelle london may 14 â€” general haig's troops stormed and took the rest of the village of roeux to-day they also smashed ahead north of gav relle they continued to drive the germans ahead in the hand-to-hand fighting among the ruins of bulle court their achievement in finally wrest ing roeux from crown prince rup precht of bavaria is noteworthy be cause there and around bullecourt the germans ha\e made their most determined and desperate counter at tacks during the last month to-day's work has again aided the british drive at the coal city of lens and has gnawed deeper the hole the australians have made in the hin denburg line near bullecourt the troops also were heartened to day by the knowledge the french and british between april 9 and may 12 captured 45,579 germans including 978 officers the spoils of war include 444 heavy and field cannon 913 machine guns b.nd 336 trench cannon it also is stated authoritatively that on the french front the germans have lost in killed wounded and pris oners 200,000 men official word came from petrograd that to check the franco-british drive and to fill his decimated divisions von hindenburg has drawn 600,000 from the east front in the battle before lens the brit ish are taking an unusually large number of prisoners air fighting in front of lens and cambrai continues to-day the british aviators shot down six german flyers and drove two oth ers down crippled behind their lines three british planes failed to return the french from laon southward to the champagne repulsed german attacks r norris williams feet faulty rejected cambridge mass may 14 r norris williams 11 of harvard na tional tennis champion was reject for plattsburg camp because his fee had minor defects and eddie casey harvard football and baseball star was turned down son of j p morgan joins navy as ensign new york may 14 â€” junius spen cer morgan son of j p morgan has joined the naval reserve as an ensign and has been assigned to the station at newport r 1 it was announced at recruiting headquarters here to turks offer open straits in peace bid pome may 14 the idea na *Â» zionale the organ of the na tionalist party prints a report from diplomatic quarters that turkey has made overtures to russia through a neutral source for separate peace on the basis of the complete opening of the straits to russian navigation both for war and merchant vessels london may 14 bonar law chancellor of the exchequer today refused to pledge great britain against giving any of the central allies a separate peace he said such a peace would be a severe blow to the kaiser in reply to a question he said no treaty ever had been contem plated with japan under which that nation would overrun siberia if russia relaxed her efforts in the war britain to take over breweries step is first in complete gov ernment control of the liquor traffic london may 15 the government has decided to assume charge of breweries the london daily express asserts / the decision was reached at a con ference between premier david lloyd george viscount milner and arthur henderson ministers without portfolio and waldorf astor member of parliament the entire liquor traf fic ultimately will be controlled by purchase the times says milner in charge subsequently the brewers associa tion was invited to appoint a repre senative to confer with viscount milner who will be in charge of the control announcement of the control the daily express adds possibly will be made this week an authoritative statement con tained in the cable says early in the war the prime minis ter attacked the drink trade as one of our greatest enemies an enemy which had to be defeated in order thac we might conquer by arms drink has not been conquered but it has been humbled the cabinet and other ministers of the government are in favor of a policy of state purchase state con trol and local option in other words a popular vote on prohibition after the nationalization of the drink trade the prohibitionists are against purchase as they advocate confisca tion the economists are against it because it means purchasing a vast enterprise for the purpose of imme diately reducing it as a source of revenue the trade itself wishes to be left alone hoping for a revival in the traffic after the war allies will deck graves of americans london may 14 â€” memorial day will be observed in europe as well as in the united states the graves of all americans killed while serv ing in france will be strewn with flowers in london special services will be held in st paul's cathedral preceded by a parade of americano here h p davison goes to head red cross board new york may 14 henry p davison of j p morgan & co left for washington to-night to serve as chairman of the new r4d cross war council he wiil remain until the 2"ir rnd fltf continued on 2d page 3d column hcgntintied on 4th page sth column continued on 2d page sth colurmw â– * w mm mmti xm ast

Chicago examiner tuesday vol xv no 124 a m Chicago may 15 1917 tuesday b*-istered pt?tr , tr i tw7tk r l t?xrt w Chicago elsetchtire m c s patent office mikjiu x>v j kjejjx lq and suburbs three cents i all wheat gambling in u.s to be barred representatives of Chicago min neapolis duluth kansas city st louis and toledo pits to end all trading in futures complete government control is threatened big traders are summoned before grand jury childs leaves for washington the entire nation has jisen against speculation in wheat and other foodstuffs the pub ic lias determined that forcing of j prices to the skies must stop these are the more prominent de elopments of the day at Chicago representatives of six boards of trade called to meet in Chicago at 3 o'clock this afternoon they will plan te stop speculation in wheat futures throughout the country and to curb wild fluctuations in all grains Chicago board of trade stops spec ulation in wheat futures for two days ending to-night minneapolis duluth kansas city it louis and toledo boards take sim ilar action large Chicago grain dealers sum moned before the federal grand jury robert w childs special attorney of the department of justice leaves or washington to give president wilson data with which to force passage of drastic legislation at washington the senate defeats an amendment o the espionage bill immediately suspending operations of all boards of trade stock exchanges or associa tions engaged in or permitting specu ation in food products for the period f the war announcement is made herbert c hoover will be installed as food dic tator to-day administration senators plan to tnd wrangling on food bills and as sure their passage congressmen brand speculators as thieves traitors and pirates protest meetings in all parts of u s protest meetings were reported from all parts of the country the departure of attorney childs for washington and the calling of the grain dealers before the federal rand jury by united states dis trict attorney charles f clyne were construed by board of trade men last night as certain indications the government plans immediate action igainst speculators among the witnesses called were !â€¢'. j thatcher president and nelson b updike vice president of the up dike commission company 140 west van buren street henry s robbins ittorney for the Chicago board of trade and h b jackson of jackson tros they and others whose names . ore withheld were in conference with the federal attorney yesterday afternoon wilder fluctuations feared by board mr clyne refused to say when the grand jury would hear them that body worked yesterday on the chi cago butter and egg board investl t^tton mr childs place was taken y john e condren the conference of six board of rade committees is expected to re ult in one of the most important doom of free russia sounded disaster at mil hash - admits hope of saving nation a drean dispelled by crisis noth : ig but ruin in sight declares minister of justice in appeal save russia from herself is final instruction of president wilson to root and u s mis sion he heads to pÂ°trograd petrograd may 13 delayed â€” in an impassioned appeal to delegates from the front at a meeting in petrograd to-day a f kernesky minister of justice made the most alarming diagnosis of rus sia's internal crisis which has come from any official person since the revolution the minister of justice who here tofore had made only the most optimistic and reassuring declara tions confessed that his confidence had left him and that he feared disaster sorry he did not die with faith in liberty i come to you said m kernesky because my strength is at an end i no longer feel my former courage nor have my former conviction that we are conscientious citizens not slaves in revolt i am sorry i did not die two months ago when the dream of a new life was growing in the hearts of the russian people when 1 was sure the country coulu govern itself without the whip as affairs are going on now it will be impossible to save the coun try perhaps the time is near when we will have to tell you that we can no longer give you the amount of bread you expect or other supplies oi which you have a right to count th process of the change from slaves to freedom is not going on properly we have tasted freedom and ar slightly intoxicated but what w need is sobriety and discipline reform or russia must quit conflict you could suffer and be silent for ten years and obey the orders of a hated government you could eveu fire upon your own people when commanded to do so can you now suffer no longer m kernesky's declaration though a trifle more outspoken in its pessim ism than the utterances of other of ficials is not unrepresentative of pud lic opinion in petrograd at the pres ent time unless there is a quick in fusion of a new spirit in the army and a new understanding of freedom among the masses and more energy working for the defense of the coun try it is generally felt that russia , ! will not long be able to go on with ' the war admits russ fraternize with german troops petrograd may 14 â€” general guchkoff minister of war has re signed he is the first member of the pro visional government to carry out the recent threat that if interference by the socialists continued the ministers would relinquish their posts the resignation follows that of general korniloff commander of th l'mrograd garrison m gucnkoff yesterday read o j congress of delegates from the front j this letter which he had sent to pr j mier lvoff j in view of the condition in which i t power of the government has i placed specially th author m senate votes for free speech 48 to 34 by james j montague spy ii passe urn muzzle drastic measure to punish es pionage adopted examination of mails and food embargoes provided house to follow washington may 14 the campaign for free speech initiated by the hearst news i papers and led in the senate by j johnson of california curtis of kan sas underwood of alabama and i borah of idaho resulted to-day in i striking the entire press censorship j clause from the senate espionage bill by a vote of 48 to 34 the bill was finally passed by the senate minus both the censorship and the prohibition sections by a vote of 77 to 6 effortjs_had been made throughout the night to upset the vote of 39 to 39 by which the censorship clause had been stricken from the bill cabinet officers claiming the highest authority had worked tooth and nail to restore a gag provision asserting that the war could not be success fully conducted in the full light of publicity sot only did these efforts fail but thirteen more senators rallied to the side of tree speech and av annst rled press as the bill now stands there must be an adjustment between the house and senate before it can finally be enacted the house measure con tains a provision which although it deprives the administration of the muzzling power it asked still makes possible a censorship to be exercised jointly by the president and the courts house likely to follow senate action because of the overwhelming voto against censorship in the senate to day it is extremely likely the house will yield and the espionage bill when it goes to the president will be purged of any semblance of a gag upon free speech the administration's shafts were leveled against free speech and a free press as soon as the espionage bill minus the press censorship section was reported to the senate this aft ernoon overman tries to reinstall gag senator lee a overman of north carolina who had been entrusted with the measure moved to amend the bill so as to include the press censorship section which had been stricken out saturday by a narrow majority mr overman's remarks were brief end perfunctory a count of noses taken in the senate cloakroom some minutes before showed desertions from the ranks of the administra tion democrats which endangered the bill lodge opposes censorship clause administration - bound democrats seconded overman's olea for a gagged press by calls for a vote but action was delayed by senator lodge of massachusetts who arose to announce that he had changed his attitude in regard to censorship and would now 433 perish in diver attack on liner report buenos aires may 14 1n " a running battle with a sub marine the french mail boat tetragon was sunk off cape torrosa between oran and mar seilles and only seventeen of the 450 passengers aboard were saved according to reports re ceived here to-day jos h choate dies suddenly hurry u s troops to france ex-ambassador's last plea to nation new york may 14 joseph h choate well known lawyer and dip lomat died late to-night mr choate died of heart disease at his home 8 east sixty-third street he awakened his wife shortly after 11 o'clock complaining of severe pains around the heart he had re tired apparently in the best of health a hurry call was sent for the family physician but about midnight he died excitement too much it is believed the strain the aged and venerable citizen underwent in welcoming the french and british commission last week brought on the attack in his address at the wal dorf astoria friday night during the great international banquet â€” the last of his long and notable career â€” his message to the government was for god's sake hurry and get troops to france mr choate was born in salem mass june 24 1832 he was admitted to the new york bar in 1856 after he had practiced law in massachu setts for a year previously he was identified with many cases the most prominent in the early days of his legal career being that of one of the committee which broke up the famous tweed ring he was ambassador to great brit tain from 1899 to 1905 ambassador and first delegate of the united states to the international peace conference at the hague in 1907 noted as public speaker mr choate was noted as a public and after-dinner speaker he was the author of several books and prominently connected with several societies i succeeded in spite of advan tages he said once he was a great trial lawyer standing with hand in pocket and addressing a jury as he would a friend on the street and quickly winning confidence many have felt the sting of his wit in court but he was a stickler for eti quette held to general practice though he frequently had corpora tions as clients and collected many fees of 100,000 he stood always for a general practice with clients of low and high estate his first celebrated case was his defense of general fitz john porter discharged from the army in disgrace for supposed disobedience at bull run mr choate fought the court martial verdict for years in the courts and finally won signal attack on income tax his most signal achievement how ever was his successful attack upon the constitutionality of the income tax before the supreme court he not only won his cause but upset precedent and induced an adverse justice to reverse himself reno court frees philander knox jr reno new wy 14 â€” philander c knox jr son of the former secre tary of state was granted a divorce to-day on the grounds of desertion the couple eloped to burlington vt march 6 1910 mrs knox did not contest the suit wilson calls 183,000 more for u.s army national guard to be summoned into service at once to com plete army of 750,000 war department expects to have 1,200,000 troops ready for service within a year washington may 14 president wilson following a conference with secretary of war baker issued an executive order authorizing the rais ing of 183,000 men in four incre ments to bring the regular army to full war strength war department officials let it be known late this afternoon that plans were under way to bring the national guard into the federal service im mediately and that camps were now being selected as training bases for the militia forces which will be in creased to war footing train 750.000 at once here is what the war department intends to do put under training forthwith 750,000 men of the regular army and national guard as rapidly as the two organizations can be brought to full strength have the training of these troops well under way by august 1 when the first increments of the con scriptive army will begin to pour in also there will be ready by this time the 40,000 officers whose train ing begins to-morrow they will take over the leadership of the se lective army 1,200,000 within year straight conscription will be re sorted to in the case of the national guard this was indicated in hish quarters che war department to - day each congressional district in the country will be forced to supply its quota of 800 to bring the guard to its war strength of approximately 330,000 the greater part of the regular army now largely concentrated along the mexican border will be trans ferred leaving the patrol of the rio grande to cavalry divisions of both regulars and guardsmen the militia regiments will be mob ilized at their state camps and then will be moved to federal camps ac cording to the presetn plans under these plans and others being worked out by the army war college the first army of approximately 1,200 000 men will be ready for service in from nine months to a year camps are assigned with 40,000 men from the homes of the nation under canvas to-night training as leaders of the new na tional army america began to t:i!:c on the appearance of a vast w camp at sixteen camps covering the na tion from coast to coast to-morrow will begin a three and one-half months siege of intensive training for the men picked to lead the na tion's legions into battle kill more neutrals german u-boat plea copenhagen may 14 u-boat warfare is not ruthless enough to please professor oswald flamm privy councilor of charlottenburg writing in die woche he urges that fewer neutral sailors be saved so as to terrorize neutral shipping and make the british risk their own bhips president cheered by crowd at circus washington may 14 president wilson went to the circus to-night he was accompanied by miss helen woodrow bones mrs wilson's sis ter recently died the president w 1 recognized and cheered k whisky rider stricken out in the senate by charles michelson cummins amendment lumping distilleries with beer and wine industries is killed 47 to 37 new bill forbidding use of cereal grains in making spirit uous liquors only is planned washington may 14 â€” the sen ate dealt the first hard blow to whisky to-day by knocking out the cummins amendment to the espionage bill this amendment classified the beer and wine industries with distilleries and forbade the use of any cereal in the production of intoxicating liquor during the war 3 it was pointed out in the debate this meant that there being a three year supply of whisky while beer is only brewed for practically immedi ate consumption the country would be placed on a whisky basis and the american workman deprived of mild beverages would be turned to bonded poison new bill to ban whisky now a new bill will be intro duced forbidding the use of grain needed for breadstuffs in the manu facture of spiritous liquors the vote against the cummins amendment was 47 to 37 it clears the deck3 for legislation putting whisky in the same class as mor phine and opium and leaving beer and light wines in the category of tobacco which is practically the course taken by france and ger many cummins denies prohibition senator cummins fought hard for his amendment he denied it was a prohibition measure senator king of utah who niixue the motion on which the amendment was stricken out and senator reed of missouri pointed the amendment v.-ould destroy a billion dollars worth of property to save 50,000,000 bush els of barley that would be fed to cattle had the cnmmina amendment dealt with whisky alone there is no ques tion but that it would have been adopted by an overwhelming vote ripe for whisky ban washington is ripe for the new legislation the only question in the mind of the senators and representa tives who will work for the passage of a bill ending the general sale of whisky is its particular form it may come as an amendment to the pure food bill o it may be introduced as a war measure giving the president authority to close the distilleries to prevent diversion of the enormous quantity of food grains in a time of the greatest need in one form or another this matter will be presented to congress within a few days it is obvious the sen ators who voted for the cummins amendment sincerely accepting it as a prohibition measure would vote for the anti-whisky bill and enough votes from the opponents of the amendment who did not believe it u s weathek forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” fair tuesday and wednesday warmer tuesday gentle to moderate west erly winds becomlne variable weather for tvrer.t.v-foiir tio;;rs ending j p n : hljfhekt 6 lowest 44 averaflpe .">": normal teniperature for the day r deficiency of temperature since january i ids precipitation for twenty-four hours at 7 p m none relative humidity 7"s m 41 Â£ p m 28 7 p m 29 barometric pressure reduced to m level 7 a m 30.25 7 p m 30.17 sunrise to-day 4 59 burnet 7:08 onanlct cotwumnt report oa^pjfa 16 m m house to kill speech muzzle avers speaker washington may 14 " speaker champ clark made the following statement to-night the action of the senate in kill ing censorship this afternoon will eliminate any press gag from the espionage bill as it will leave congress for the sig nature of the president if there is any attempt to in clude censorship in the espion age bill in conference between the house and the senate it will be repudiated by the house exactly as the vote against the roosevelt volunteer division was repudiated when the members had heard from their constituents i believe that censorship is dead so far as the espionage bill is con cerned british take rest of roeux deepen hole in hindenburg line at bullecourt advance near gavrelle london may 14 â€” general haig's troops stormed and took the rest of the village of roeux to-day they also smashed ahead north of gav relle they continued to drive the germans ahead in the hand-to-hand fighting among the ruins of bulle court their achievement in finally wrest ing roeux from crown prince rup precht of bavaria is noteworthy be cause there and around bullecourt the germans ha\e made their most determined and desperate counter at tacks during the last month to-day's work has again aided the british drive at the coal city of lens and has gnawed deeper the hole the australians have made in the hin denburg line near bullecourt the troops also were heartened to day by the knowledge the french and british between april 9 and may 12 captured 45,579 germans including 978 officers the spoils of war include 444 heavy and field cannon 913 machine guns b.nd 336 trench cannon it also is stated authoritatively that on the french front the germans have lost in killed wounded and pris oners 200,000 men official word came from petrograd that to check the franco-british drive and to fill his decimated divisions von hindenburg has drawn 600,000 from the east front in the battle before lens the brit ish are taking an unusually large number of prisoners air fighting in front of lens and cambrai continues to-day the british aviators shot down six german flyers and drove two oth ers down crippled behind their lines three british planes failed to return the french from laon southward to the champagne repulsed german attacks r norris williams feet faulty rejected cambridge mass may 14 r norris williams 11 of harvard na tional tennis champion was reject for plattsburg camp because his fee had minor defects and eddie casey harvard football and baseball star was turned down son of j p morgan joins navy as ensign new york may 14 â€” junius spen cer morgan son of j p morgan has joined the naval reserve as an ensign and has been assigned to the station at newport r 1 it was announced at recruiting headquarters here to turks offer open straits in peace bid pome may 14 the idea na *Â» zionale the organ of the na tionalist party prints a report from diplomatic quarters that turkey has made overtures to russia through a neutral source for separate peace on the basis of the complete opening of the straits to russian navigation both for war and merchant vessels london may 14 bonar law chancellor of the exchequer today refused to pledge great britain against giving any of the central allies a separate peace he said such a peace would be a severe blow to the kaiser in reply to a question he said no treaty ever had been contem plated with japan under which that nation would overrun siberia if russia relaxed her efforts in the war britain to take over breweries step is first in complete gov ernment control of the liquor traffic london may 15 the government has decided to assume charge of breweries the london daily express asserts / the decision was reached at a con ference between premier david lloyd george viscount milner and arthur henderson ministers without portfolio and waldorf astor member of parliament the entire liquor traf fic ultimately will be controlled by purchase the times says milner in charge subsequently the brewers associa tion was invited to appoint a repre senative to confer with viscount milner who will be in charge of the control announcement of the control the daily express adds possibly will be made this week an authoritative statement con tained in the cable says early in the war the prime minis ter attacked the drink trade as one of our greatest enemies an enemy which had to be defeated in order thac we might conquer by arms drink has not been conquered but it has been humbled the cabinet and other ministers of the government are in favor of a policy of state purchase state con trol and local option in other words a popular vote on prohibition after the nationalization of the drink trade the prohibitionists are against purchase as they advocate confisca tion the economists are against it because it means purchasing a vast enterprise for the purpose of imme diately reducing it as a source of revenue the trade itself wishes to be left alone hoping for a revival in the traffic after the war allies will deck graves of americans london may 14 â€” memorial day will be observed in europe as well as in the united states the graves of all americans killed while serv ing in france will be strewn with flowers in london special services will be held in st paul's cathedral preceded by a parade of americano here h p davison goes to head red cross board new york may 14 henry p davison of j p morgan & co left for washington to-night to serve as chairman of the new r4d cross war council he wiil remain until the 2"ir rnd fltf continued on 2d page 3d column hcgntintied on 4th page sth column continued on 2d page sth colurmw â– * w mm mmti xm ast